West girls basketball looks to fill the gaps

By: Brian Meadows | Mooresville Tribune
Published: November 19, 2009

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With its top rebounder and best shooter lost to graduation, West Iredell's girls basketball team has a few holes to fill this season.

Kaylyn Chapman and Elizabeth Walden did the bulk of the scoring and rebounding for the Warriors last season.

"When you lose the two we lost, you lose 10 points apiece and over 10 rebounds a game," said Warriors coach Phil Fox, whose team opens its season at home Monday against Davie County.

"We'll be looking for someone to step up and do those same kinds of things."

West has some height on the interior and will lean on players like Chelsea Ellis, a sophomore, to crash the boards.

"She can rebound with the best of them," Fox said of Ellis, who routinely pulled down double-digit boards each game last year for the junior varsity team.

The Warriors are stocked with guards, but it remains to be seen whether they have a perimeter scoring threat like Walden. Sophomore Jaclyn Gatton could provide a lift in that department, Fox said.